In the second edition of Big Knockout Boxing, a ropeless, pit-style boxing competition, Curtis Stevens says he’s looking for an emphatic win over BKB champ Gabriel Rosado to bounce back from his loss to Hassan N’Dam.

Gabriel Rosado is excited about his second BKB appearance on Saturday against fellow former middleweight contender Curtis Stevens, but the two-time title challenger, who remains popular with fans, says his status in the upstart combat sports league hasn’t replaced his goals in traditional boxing.

A number of RING-ranked contenders saw action last week, resulting in changes in the light heavyweight, middleweight and strawweight divisions. Former light heavyweight champ Chad Dawson’s upset loss to Tommy Karpency caused him to drop from the rankings.

Hassan N’Dam thoroughly outboxed Curtis Stevens to win a one-sided unanimous decision in a title-elimination fight on Wednesday in Santa Monica, California. It was N’Dam’s first significant test since he went down six times in a loss to Peter Quillin in 2012.

The boxing world awaits the intriguing IBF middleweight title-elimination bout between Hassan N’Jikam N’Dam and Curtis Stevens on Oct. 1, but the undercard of the ESPN-televised fight looks compelling as well.

RingTV’s Bill Emes caught up with Curtis Stevens to talk about the hard-hitting middleweight contender’s upcoming title elimination bout with Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam and his thoughts on the Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Geale bout, as well his and GGG’s future. [Warning: Explicit language.]

King Sports World, which promotes former middleweight titleholder Hassan N’Dam, out-bid Main Events on Monday for the right to promote an IBF middleweight title eliminator between Curtis Stevens and N’Dam, according to an e-mail from IBF Championships Chairman Lindsay Tucker.

A purse bid has been scheduled for July 14 for an IBF middleweight title eliminator between Curtis Stevens and Hassan N’Dam. The winner will be the mandatory challenger to titleholder Sam Soliman, IBF Championships Chairman informed RingTV.com on Monday.

Fans share their thoughts on Tim Bradley, the Bradley-Pacquiao rematch, the Stevens-Johnson stoppage, Cunningham-Mansour, Carl Frampton, the cruiserweights, the heavyweights, boxing’s badasses and much more in this week’s Monday mailbag. Enjoy!

Middleweight contender Curtis Stevens tells RingTV that he didn’t fight the right fight against ultra-aggressive and tough Tureano Johnson. “I give myself a D (grade),” he said, but added: “I’m always entertaining whether I make it look hard or I make it look easy.”